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We’ren’t we supposed to get more rational drug enforcement policies under NObama? Bullshit.
Yet something else about which Obama needs to evolve.
Wow…
Reid used the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules today in order to avoid a vote on Obama’s jobs bill.
(Anyone at Slog paying attention today?)
There goes the 2/3rds rule. Harry seems to have placed a bet that the Democrats will never (ever) lose control of the Senate.
once again, obama shows himself to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. is there a single progressive platitude of his that he hasn’t contradicted with his actions?
@3 so if he was going to do something like that, wouldn’t it have made sense to make the move right when you took power & so you could push through your agenda & not right before you are likely to lose power? what a fucking idiot.
oh, and thank goodness the democrats are in power. imagine if the republicans were in power instead. they might have used the irs & the justice department to subvert the people’s will (& ignore the science) on this issue.
@4
Well…. One would think that the time would have been at the start of the Obama menstruation when Democrats controlled the House and the Senate for the first two out of the past three years.
Is there any promise he’ll break, any vile action he can take, that will make those who are still devoted to him refuse to support him?
@8
Nope. None. None at all.
@9 and that is how democracy dies in this country.
FUCK OBAMA
@8 Not until we figure a way to beat the lazy thinking that is their self-imposed, supposedly unchangeable, lesser of two evils paradigm out of their thick skulls. I get it, to a point. People don’t like supporting positions and people they don’t think have a chance. But all it takes is having standards, and it’s like magic! Suddenly a new world of options open up.
somewhat related to @11: msg/communique from anon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzbTlY1uO…
It took a constitutional amendment (the 18th) to do less against alcohol than Congress is trying to do by fiat against marijuana.
Why do the states allow this to happen?
You had me going there until I read the very end of the link:
“The San Diego medical marijuana outlets put on notice were the same 12 that city officials sued last month for operating illegally, after activists there threatened to force an election on a zoning plan adopted to regulate the city’s fast-growing medical marijuana industry, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said. A judge on Wednesday ordered nine of the targeted shops to close, while the other three shut down voluntarily, Goldsmith said.”
I’m pretty sure the people of Washington State don’t want the fucked-up marijuana mess that we have here in California. So, you should probably get a clue.
Good catch, @14.
@16, the fact that I’m too old and suburban to be a hipster is the least ridiculous thing in that post. You’re equating liberals opposing a president for being a demonstrably dishonest, authoritarian conservative, with conservatives opposing a president for being less conservative than they want him to be. That’s just desperate nonsense.
@14, thanks for letting us know what you learned by actually reading the article. I guess someone had to be the first around here.
@14: Fair enough, but read the next sentence: “Duffy, the U.S. attorney for far Southern California, planned to issue warning letters to property owners and all of the 180 or so dispensaries that have proliferated in San Diego in the absence of compromise regulations, according to Goldsmith.” They’re not just targeting the dispensaries that may not be following local laws, though they’re starting there.
@19
http://theweek.com/article/index/217110/…
And even if some locals are claiming that the San Diego dispensaries violate the law, Obama’s Justice Department has already threatened state workers all over the country with prosecution if they even dare to grant licenses to dispensaries.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-morg…
Whether he’s reversing himself on medical marijuana or state secrets or prosecuting whistle blowers, it’s clear to anyone who’s not suffering from a political form of battered wife syndrome, Obama is less interested in honest behavior than in political power.
@22, nope.
From May, 2008:
Would you stop the DEA’s raids on Oregon medical marijuana growers?
I would because I think our federal agents have better things to do, like catching criminals and preventing terrorism. The way I want to approach the issue of medical marijuana is to base it on science, and if there is sound science that supports the use of medical marijuana and if it is controlled and prescribed in a way that other medicine is prescribed, then it’s something that I think we should consider.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-90…
3 years later:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
Obama is basing marijuana policy on science the way G.W. Bush based environmental policy on science.
@22, it’s true that Obama has always stated that he believes marijuana should stay illegal, but we’re talking about what he’s said regarding medical marijuana.
Of course, the very fact that he thinks people should have criminal records, should go to jail, for doing exactly what he did when he was young reeks of the very worst kind of hypocrisy. President Obama believes that millions of people should be penalized for doing exactly what young Barack Obama did.
That makes Obama (and every other politician, R or D, who used drugs in their youth and became prohibitionists for political gain) a grade-A authoritarian, hypocritical asshole.
Obama 2012!
@24 – Quiz Question: What modern US president was NOT a grade-A, authoritarian, hypocritical asshole?
(This is a trick question.)
@26- Jimmie Carter? Eisenhower?
@27 – I’m not sure Jimmy Carter counts.
@26–none
I’d actually be leery of getting a medical marijuana card right now because I feel like it’s just writing the feds’ case for them if they ever decide to bust you.
#11 – I agree with you in principal, but “all it takes is having standards, and it’s like magic! Suddenly a new world of options open up.” is just wishful thinking, and you know it. Will you be voting GOP or third party in the next prez election? Yeah, I didn’t think so…